ISBN: 0749394854
Godina izdanja: 1997
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Günter Grass - The Flounder
Minerva / Random House, 1997
547 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

English translation by Ralph Manheim

It all begins in the Stone Age, when a talking fish is caught by a fisherman at the very spot where millennia later Grass`s home town, Danzig, will arise. Like the fish, the fisherman is immortal, and down through the ages they move together. As Grass blends his ingredients into a powerful brew, he shows himself at the peak of his linguistic inventiveness.

Günter Grass, says The Timer, is on his own as an artist`, and indeed this extraordinary, provoking and joyously Rabelaisian celebration of life, food and sex is unique.
Lifted from their ancient fairytale, the fisherman and his wife are still living today. During the months of Ilsebill`s pregnancy, the fisherman tells her of his adventures through time with the Flounder, constituting a complete reworking of social, political. and gastronomic history.
A masterpiece by one of the most gifted and original of contemporary writers. It is a book that will repay study and rereading. Only a churlish and insular reader could fail to respond to its bold and exhilarating historical sweep, its poetie celebration of food and the arts of cooking`
NEW STATESMAN
`Grass spices his potent brew with a juicy concoction of tales and anecdotes, and a rich Rabelaisian humour`
DAILY TELEGRAPH
`I know of no one else capable of writing anything like it`
SUNDAY TIMES
`Grass is one of the few great writers in Europe today
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH


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